She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it. Eleanor Brown
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Think of a book as a person. If you want to be like that person, you have to read the book. If the book is boring, the characters are boring. You can't make yourself into someone else, but you can try to copy them.

Source: The Weird Sisters

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